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A science fiction short story by C.R. Lang · 5 min read
In the city of Somnia, sleep was a trade.
· 6 min read
Finding a Narrative Style Your Audience Remembers
Two writers can describe the same rainy street with the same facts and leave readers with completely different impressions. One sounds wry and detached, the other warm and nostalgic.
· 6 min read
Painting Pictures With Words
A reader who has never visited your story's world should still be able to feel it: the weight of the air, the sounds behind the dialogue, the mood that settles over a scene before anyone says a word. That feeling comes from description, and the difference between vivid description and a pile of adjectives is a matter of technique.
· 6 min read
Constructing Worlds That Serve the Story
Readers rarely remember a story for its maps or timelines. They remember how it felt to be there: the smell of a market, the tension of an unspoken rule, the sense that the world existed before the first page and will go on after the last.
Quiet dread, uncanny turns, and the things that wait just out of sight.
· 6 min read
Horror · short story
Harlan Teague had kept the Greywater Cemetery for twenty-two years, and in that time he had learned two rules.
· 6 min read
Horror · short story
The heatwave reached its nineteenth day before anyone noticed the shadows were wrong.
· 5 min read
Horror · short story
Iris Calloway had photographed weddings for nine years before she photographed the room.
Love stories, chance meetings, and hearts that find their way.
· 7 min read
Romance · short story
The elevator stopped between the fourteenth and fifteenth floors at 6:47 p.m., and the lights went out one second later.
· 6 min read
Romance · short story
Odalys Brandt had run Thistle & Rue for eleven years, and in that time she had learned that most people did not know what they were saying when they bought flowers.
· 6 min read
Romance · short story
In the city of Veridian, nobody fell in love by accident anymore.
Near futures, strange technologies, and the people who have to live with them.
· 5 min read
Science fiction · short story
In the city of Somnia, sleep was a trade.
· 6 min read
Science fiction · short story
By the year 2140, no one on Earth had read a book in the old sense of the word.
· 6 min read
Science fiction · short story
The Crossroads Diner sat at the junction of Route 9 and nothing, a chrome-sided relic with a flickering sign and a counter that had seen a hundred thousand elbows.
C.R. Lang was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. He is the author of published articles, numerous short stories, and several novellas. His lifelong passion has always been English literature. He has always had an extreme love of people, hearing their stories, talking about the lives they lead, and telling tales of their experiences.
In addition to his world-building stories and his love for writing, Lang devotes his heart, time, energy, and most of all his love to raising and caring for his nieces, while also supporting his retired mother and intellectually disabled younger brother. Above all else, though, he considers his faith and family the most important parts of his entire life.
When he is not spending time with friends, sharing stories, or caring for his loved ones, he can often be found reading at home, nestled quietly in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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